#29: The World’s Largest Log Cabin

The children in this 1938 photograph are not extra-small. The building is extra-large! This photograph was taken in front of the largest log cabin in the world, located in Portland, Oregon. This larger-than-life log cabin was constructed for the Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition of 1905. It measured 206 feet long, 102 feet wide, and about seven stories high. 

This giant cabin was constructed from old-growth trees that were cut down in Columbia County, Oregon. The cabin, formally called the Forestry Building, was a tourist attraction for many years until it burned down in 1964. They could do nothing to stop the flames from destroying this historic building. The only evidence we have left of this spectacle is vintage photos like this one.